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Quake Claims 500
by Marcus Yam, Aug 19, 1999 12:29am PDTMerc pointed me to The Onion for a reference on a "Quake" claiming 500...hours. Anyone else find it interesting that the word "Quake" has never had any real relevance to the games? (Other than sounding cool)
SAN FRANCISCO--Rescue workers are still searching frantically for any signs of unwasted time in the wreckage of high-school student Jeremy Fanshaw's life, following a devastating Quake game that claimed an estimated 500 hours of his time. "Ordinarily, a game of this magnitude would destroy 40 to 50 hours," Red Cross worker Linda Wallis-Hupford said. "But, tragically, Jeremy went back to play the game from the beginning, then he started playing at harder and harder skill levels, and, eventually, he downloaded software that let him create his own levels and skins." As rescue efforts continue, experts are warning of a possible Quake II disaster that could last even longer, with more stunning graphics.
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are the new directory servers if you still have ss, if not you can d/l it from www.subspace.nu or www.gamehacker.com
-CC
Perhaps the automatic vapor rule only applies to FPS titles. Or maybe I\'m taking this joke a bit too far now... But I guarantee a huge backlash against this American McGee\'s Alice hype. Actually, it\'s already begun: Old Man Murray is already parodying the whole thing. Notable quote: \"The university of getting fired from id has graduated another self-proclaimed genius.\"
www.oldmanmurray.com
Thanks for the science lesson, greg.
fuck american modem BS
Je suis un homme du nord, baby!
Re: Titles that have nothing to do with the game
That\'s usually a sign that the game is good. So games with nonsensical titles, like the Quake series and Half-Life, are good. On the other hand, games that have the lead designer\'s name in the title always suffer crippling internal discord in the design phase, ie. John Romero\'s Daikatana. This is not a good sign for American McGee\'s Alice.
Ah, it\'ll probably be good... if it ever comes out... ;)
mounties are gay tho...they have a stupid name...a stupid suit...just plain gay. they need a good name....like Stormtroopers or something that kill anyone they want. then i could respect them
Aussi, les femmes aime quand tu peux les parlé en francais.
Verloc
For everyone who acctually understood what I was saying, my appoligies for the rotten grammer and what not. It\'s been a while.
For everyone else... Learn french, it\'s not that bad. Chicks dig it!
The Mounties always get their man! Call your police what you want, if they only catch 50% of the criminals they\'re after, well, what good are they??
Je ne parle francais....
Ok, I don\'t have a comeback for the military thing. We don\'t need weapons. Ha.
By the way, is that Pierre thing a coincidence, or did you really do your research?
(Name\'s Peter. Not Pierre.)
And a Canadian (well, from vancouver, originally from the Ukraine) won QuakeCon this year. That\'s gotta smart you american pig-dogs! :)
Verloc
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#13: Why does Francois have a scottish accent? Whahts that awl aboot?
Montreal has a baseball team?
I\'ve never been fly fishing. Or fishing at all. That\'s a Maine thing, isn\'t it? Maybe american tourists do it here...
Yeah, you Americans would get drunk and pass out from our beer. Then we\'d just take you in one of our three submarines and dump you into the sea...
Plus we\'d be playing an early Q3 release at the time or something...
And actually Canada doesn\'t get to USE the technology we\'ve got. Someone in the US or Canada invents it, we make it, and we ship it down to you guys.
Hey, why is the Quake community about 1/3 Canadian? Shouldn\'t we be more like, 1/20? 25 million compared to 500 million?
Canadian Monty 1: Hey Louis, it\'s time for the Habs game on channel 58 doncha know?
Louis: Eh Francois? I don\'t have time to watch the habs game. I\'m getting on my flannel coat now, gonna go out and do some fly fishing eh. Maybe drink some Molson Ice eh.
Francois: Okay eh. Hey, what\'s that loud noise? What\'s all that aboot?
*Entire US Army rolls across Canadian Border*
No more bad baseball teams from Montreal!
In SubSpace, there are ppl who have played 5000 hours, and more. (check link)
6000+...<a href=http://subspace.nu/pro/messages/1740.html>http://subspace.nu/pro/messages/1740.html</a>
-CC
oh... that army....
crap.
I think our military (Canada) has like three helicopters. Anyone else think that\'s kind of a small number?
Course, I could be full of crap. Cause, you know, I am Canadian!
Verloc
Seriously though, I got that through email - so blame Outlook Express, blame Microsoft, blame Canada, blame Canada, blame Canada! (South Park reference :)
Both Blue\'s News and Shuga Shack cover Quake related news. It\'s a big community, but not everybody can come up with %100 unique stuff...
You wouldn\'t complain if NBC ripped off CBS\'s \"New mass graves discovered in...\" story, would you? Well, this is just the same thing on a smaller scale...